Lets see how this goes... SCO files a bogus law suit with no evidence. Then also refuses to show any evidence after three court orders. They lie to the courts repeatedly without a challenge. They file conflicting reports with the SEC and the courts. They cause multiple defendents to spend millions of dollars on bugus claims. Drag out the suits for years causing significant financial loss to the innocent. Keep money that doesn't belong to them and use it against the rightful owner. File bankruptcy to avoid paying anybody for damage done. Collect $2-Million and a Get out of Jail Free card Continue to operate as before. No punishment for those who started this fraud.
Yes, that pretty much sums up our legal system. America! What a Country!
If they know how far I go, then they also know WHERE I GO. I don't think I want the government in my shorts when ever I'm in my car. No, I don't think so. This isn't the U.K.
State governments don't want fuel efficient cars. Even some cities and counties are having conniption fits over it. Alternative fuel vehicles and alcohol burners don't pay as much, if any, fuel tax. Governments want that money!! If you start buying less gas, governments get less money. So, while the politicians speak out one side of their face that they're for a greener environment through more fuel efficient cars, better look at those crossed fingers behind their backs. Governments have even gone after people who build their own 100% ethanol vehicles to pay gasoline taxes. In Oregon, for example, they want to start taxing by the mile because of dropping fuel tax revenues. Ah, what a game these pols play with our money.
The communications are the amazing part of all of this. Imagine a 7 watt transmitter 12+ billion kilometers away. The receiver to caputure any signal from the noise is an amazing feat of engineering. Even with dish antennas, the signal is so weak by the time it reaches Earth that it must be buried deep in noise. Thus, the receiver would need to be able to filter out the noise and that isn't an easy task. The radio engineers for Voyager deserve their recognition too.
Comtrash offered a 6 mbps cable feed but, they only delivered 1 mbps. After repeated calls and repeated visits by technicians, I finally got an honest reply -- Comtrash was intentionally throttling the bandwidth to make room for their VoIP products. The tech told me nobody knows how to measure download speeds and he was surprised I could and do it in real-time Kbps chart. Even getting caught didn't phase Comtrash. I was paying almost $60/month for 6 Mbps and that's what I wanted. It wasn't in the cards.
So, I did what any intelligent person would do - I switched to DSL for $25/mo for 1.5 Mbps. So, I got 50% more bandwidth than Comtrash would deliver, a faster upload and for less than half the price.
Comtrash lies and intentionally cheats their customers.
Anytime you compress something (music, video, image, etc.) something is lost that cannot be restored by decompression. It is the nature of the beast.
There is a world out there today that desires to preserve the high fidelity of their music. We're talking a world that still uses tube amplifiers and a new generation of vinly LP -- the 180-200 gram vinyl. Variable reluctance and moving coil carts are still the top of the HiFi chain. Vintage turntables like the Technics servo drives are still in high demand. These people listen to their music on full sized systems through full size speakers.
While it is true that MP3 and iTunes made music portable, they did so at the expense of quality. It is good to see both worlds in existence but the portable world is gradually leaving the HiFi world behind. It is interesting that while CD sales are dropping, LP sales, as small as they are, are actually on the increase, according to the RIAA.
My problem isn't the 100 years. We've got 10-year old bridges falling apart around here. One had a huge section fall onto the interstate highway a year ago. They just replace a 10-year old bridge north of us for the same reason - it was falling apart. Even the new bridge over the creek and train tracks is off by almost a foot on each side where it meets the street. They have huge bump signs and almost 45 degree ramps on each side. Why can't we make a bridge and the street the same height where they meet?
Where many of these ancient bridges are also have extreme weather. Why do their stand and MNs fall? You can't blame it on the weather.
Maybe we should go back to stone and mortar bridges. Today's bridges in America don't last very long and they never meet the roadway without a bump or a dip. Many are obsolete or too small by the time they are even completed. Modern engineering doesn't stand a chance to the builders of yesterday.
Take a look at the famed Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy. This bridge was built almost 500 years ago and still stands even after numerous earthquakes in the region.
Then there is the stone bridge in the Czech Republic, the Charles Bridge that is a short 650 years old. Listed in the "Most Beautiful Bridges of the World", it was built in 1357 to replace an earlier bridge that was destroyed. It's still functioning fine.
Lets trek on over to Aberdeen, Scotland and their Brig o Balgownie bridge dating from 1286 and still in use today.
Even in the United States, we have 165 year old High Bridge in New York and Steel Bridge in Oregon that are both in use and good condition today. Although not stone bridges, they were built to last.
Now, we have a 40 year old bridge collapsing yesterday and a 35 year old bridge being completely replaced here. The Woodman bridge has a huge bump in it that will almost certainly remove your air-dam if you go the posted 40 MPH speed limit. A small bridge in Denver had to be replaced about 10 years ago and it was only about 10 years old. It seems that we are no longer capable of building a bridge that will last.
One must ask why with all the advances in science and engineering during the past 5 centuries why we can't build a decent bridge today? Why can't we have a street and bridge meet so the pavement is the same level? Why don't we build bridges like they used to? Even aquaducts built 15 centuries ago are still supplying water to Istanbul.
Obviously, when it's cheaper to build a bridge like the one in Minneapolis-St. Paul that only lasts 40 years and only kills a few people during its lifetime, but will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to cleanup, law suits and to replace, one must ask where are the priorities? Why not build a bridge to last centuries instead of decades? Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run?
We just don't make them like we used to. Somewhere along the line, the need to have something last has been lost. Are our bridges disposable commodities like the cars we drive across them? It does make one wonder.
No really. Who is Linspire to those of us that use Linux?
The people I know that Linux don't use Linspire. They use Suse, Red Hat & Fedora, Ubuntu, and a host of other distros. Most of us get downloads from Linux archives, release company's sites or distro sites. I've never seen Linspire on any of those.
I remember some rumblings about them being sold at Walmart but I have never seen a Linspire box at any of our Walmarts. I didn't even realize Linspire was still around.
So, do they even have any market share today? Anybody really use it? Hardly anybody uses it now and if this deal causes more people to shun them, will anybody even notice? Who is Linspire anyway?
I would like to see bit-slice systems return. I had an AMD system built around four of the 2900 4-bit slices and an old TTL Xerox Alto.
I like them because you could microcode these to act like a whole range of different machines. Intel, Motorola, Signetics (2650), Mesa, etc. They were a lot of fun, fast and resource efficient.
Yes, they were power hungry because of all the TTL but a single computer could be configured to be many different machines depending on what you wanted.
There is a nice little freeware program called LanSpeed by OrcaWare. I don't know how reliable the numbers are but its fun to watch your uploads and downloads.
I remember that when I had Comcast, my network traffic was pretty constant -- even if I wasn't doing anything! When I switched to a DSL line, that all stopped. I never did figure out what all the Comcast traffic was about.
When Comtrash acquired Adelphia, my net speed dropped from 6 Mbps to 1 Mbps. I called them repeatedly and they came to the house repeatedly to test. Yep, 1 Mbps was all I could get. But, with Adelphia, it was a reliable 6 Mbps. Finally a service rep said that most people don't know how to test their connections and that Comtrash was reserving the bandwidth for their new VoIP and telephony products. So, I dropped my $60 per month 1 Mbps and with with a $30 per month 1.5 Mbps. I got 50% more for half the price!
Comtrash has been advertising 6Mbit cable modems around here ever since they took over from Adelphia. When the transition occured, I was without service for 10 days. When it came back up, I had 1 Mbit speed. I called them numerous times and they checked numerous times and every time, I had a maximum of 1Mbit but was paying for 6Mbit.
Finally I had an honest technician come to my home. He said they had everybody reduced to 1Mbit to allow more bandwidth for their new services that were coming and for their telephone service (VoIP?). Anyway, he didn't even waste his or my time -- he told me the truth. He said nobody every checks their speed and Comtrash didn't expect anybody to. He was surprised that I did.
So I dropped Comtrash's expensive high-speed and went with a 1.5 Mbit DSL at 1/3 the cost and 50% faster than Comcast's 6Mbit!
I don't know how they can do all the false advertising and deliver less than promised and get away with it. I contacted the city's telecommunications division and they said that Comtrash had a monopoly and that there was nothing they could do to enforce them to provide the service advertised.
Add to this that Judge Kimbel has already said that he didn't believe the copyrights transferred because the requisite documents were never drawn up (bill of sale conveying copyrights to SCOg). So the bar was already very high and SCO failed to convince anybody otherwise.
The Novell-75.pdf [PDF] document is the order. In it, the judge says:
it is unclear under the language of the APA whether the copyrights transferred.
It is no wonder that so many people today have lost all respect for the U.S. Judicial system. Just glance over at SCO v. IBM for a laughing stock of what's wrong with the system. Then we have a Supreme Court that rules on everything NOT in the Consititution. We have judges making law and a Congress being judges. The legal system is so screwed up, its amazing that it even works at all... Wait! It Doesn't! Look at all the sexual predators out on the streets. Murderers repeating their acts. The rising numbers of unsolved crimes....
No, after thinking about it, this is just par for the legal system.
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Microsoft in an effort to get more consumers to like Vista has a new ad campaign..
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Eat Shit! 10-Trillion Flies Can't be Wrong!!!
Don't flame me -- It was Balmer's idea
Lets see how this goes...
SCO files a bogus law suit with no evidence.
Then also refuses to show any evidence after three court orders.
They lie to the courts repeatedly without a challenge.
They file conflicting reports with the SEC and the courts.
They cause multiple defendents to spend millions of dollars on bugus claims.
Drag out the suits for years causing significant financial loss to the innocent.
Keep money that doesn't belong to them and use it against the rightful owner.
File bankruptcy to avoid paying anybody for damage done.
Collect $2-Million and a Get out of Jail Free card
Continue to operate as before.
No punishment for those who started this fraud.
Yes, that pretty much sums up our legal system. America! What a Country!
Maybe this image that I saw on Groklaw will be an indication of things to come....
http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=image&file=Darl.jpg
If they know how far I go, then they also know WHERE I GO. I don't think I want the government in my shorts when ever I'm in my car. No, I don't think so. This isn't the U.K.
State governments don't want fuel efficient cars. Even some cities and counties are having conniption fits over it. Alternative fuel vehicles and alcohol burners don't pay as much, if any, fuel tax. Governments want that money!! If you start buying less gas, governments get less money. So, while the politicians speak out one side of their face that they're for a greener environment through more fuel efficient cars, better look at those crossed fingers behind their backs. Governments have even gone after people who build their own 100% ethanol vehicles to pay gasoline taxes. In Oregon, for example, they want to start taxing by the mile because of dropping fuel tax revenues. Ah, what a game these pols play with our money.
The communications are the amazing part of all of this. Imagine a 7 watt transmitter 12+ billion kilometers away. The receiver to caputure any signal from the noise is an amazing feat of engineering. Even with dish antennas, the signal is so weak by the time it reaches Earth that it must be buried deep in noise. Thus, the receiver would need to be able to filter out the noise and that isn't an easy task. The radio engineers for Voyager deserve their recognition too.
I can see it in Redmond now. The word of their carefully planned scheme got out and is now in the press around the world.
The only thing that Balmer can say is, "Chairs!! I Need More Chairs!!
Comtrash offered a 6 mbps cable feed but, they only delivered 1 mbps. After repeated calls and repeated visits by technicians, I finally got an honest reply -- Comtrash was intentionally throttling the bandwidth to make room for their VoIP products. The tech told me nobody knows how to measure download speeds and he was surprised I could and do it in real-time Kbps chart. Even getting caught didn't phase Comtrash. I was paying almost $60/month for 6 Mbps and that's what I wanted. It wasn't in the cards.
So, I did what any intelligent person would do - I switched to DSL for $25/mo for 1.5 Mbps. So, I got 50% more bandwidth than Comtrash would deliver, a faster upload and for less than half the price.
Comtrash lies and intentionally cheats their customers.
Anytime you compress something (music, video, image, etc.) something is lost that cannot be restored by decompression. It is the nature of the beast.
There is a world out there today that desires to preserve the high fidelity of their music. We're talking a world that still uses tube amplifiers and a new generation of vinly LP -- the 180-200 gram vinyl. Variable reluctance and moving coil carts are still the top of the HiFi chain. Vintage turntables like the Technics servo drives are still in high demand. These people listen to their music on full sized systems through full size speakers.
While it is true that MP3 and iTunes made music portable, they did so at the expense of quality. It is good to see both worlds in existence but the portable world is gradually leaving the HiFi world behind. It is interesting that while CD sales are dropping, LP sales, as small as they are, are actually on the increase, according to the RIAA.
My problem isn't the 100 years. We've got 10-year old bridges falling apart around here. One had a huge section fall onto the interstate highway a year ago. They just replace a 10-year old bridge north of us for the same reason - it was falling apart. Even the new bridge over the creek and train tracks is off by almost a foot on each side where it meets the street. They have huge bump signs and almost 45 degree ramps on each side. Why can't we make a bridge and the street the same height where they meet?
Where many of these ancient bridges are also have extreme weather. Why do their stand and MNs fall? You can't blame it on the weather.
Maybe we should go back to stone and mortar bridges. Today's bridges in America don't last very long and they never meet the roadway without a bump or a dip. Many are obsolete or too small by the time they are even completed. Modern engineering doesn't stand a chance to the builders of yesterday.
Take a look at the famed Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy. This bridge was built almost 500 years ago and still stands even after numerous earthquakes in the region.
Then there is the stone bridge in the Czech Republic, the Charles Bridge that is a short 650 years old. Listed in the "Most Beautiful Bridges of the World", it was built in 1357 to replace an earlier bridge that was destroyed. It's still functioning fine.
Lets trek on over to Aberdeen, Scotland and their Brig o Balgownie bridge dating from 1286 and still in use today.
Even in the United States, we have 165 year old High Bridge in New York and Steel Bridge in Oregon that are both in use and good condition today. Although not stone bridges, they were built to last.
Now, we have a 40 year old bridge collapsing yesterday and a 35 year old bridge being completely replaced here. The Woodman bridge has a huge bump in it that will almost certainly remove your air-dam if you go the posted 40 MPH speed limit. A small bridge in Denver had to be replaced about 10 years ago and it was only about 10 years old. It seems that we are no longer capable of building a bridge that will last.
One must ask why with all the advances in science and engineering during the past 5 centuries why we can't build a decent bridge today? Why can't we have a street and bridge meet so the pavement is the same level? Why don't we build bridges like they used to? Even aquaducts built 15 centuries ago are still supplying water to Istanbul.
Obviously, when it's cheaper to build a bridge like the one in Minneapolis-St. Paul that only lasts 40 years and only kills a few people during its lifetime, but will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to cleanup, law suits and to replace, one must ask where are the priorities? Why not build a bridge to last centuries instead of decades? Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run?
We just don't make them like we used to. Somewhere along the line, the need to have something last has been lost. Are our bridges disposable commodities like the cars we drive across them? It does make one wonder.
Now if we could just destroy Elton John and get on with the music
No really. Who is Linspire to those of us that use Linux?
The people I know that Linux don't use Linspire. They use Suse, Red Hat & Fedora, Ubuntu, and a host of other distros. Most of us get downloads from Linux archives, release company's sites or distro sites. I've never seen Linspire on any of those.
I remember some rumblings about them being sold at Walmart but I have never seen a Linspire box at any of our Walmarts. I didn't even realize Linspire was still around.
So, do they even have any market share today? Anybody really use it? Hardly anybody uses it now and if this deal causes more people to shun them, will anybody even notice? Who is Linspire anyway?
I would like to see bit-slice systems return. I had an AMD system built around four of the 2900 4-bit slices and an old TTL Xerox Alto.
I like them because you could microcode these to act like a whole range of different machines. Intel, Motorola, Signetics (2650), Mesa, etc. They were a lot of fun, fast and resource efficient.
Yes, they were power hungry because of all the TTL but a single computer could be configured to be many different machines depending on what you wanted.
Yep, I noticed that the option to Uninstall Vista was also missing ;-}
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By Anne Broache
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: July 13, 2007, 2:32 PDT
http://news.com.com/FAQ+Net+radios+mixed+signals/
I remember that when I had Comcast, my network traffic was pretty constant -- even if I wasn't doing anything! When I switched to a DSL line, that all stopped. I never did figure out what all the Comcast traffic was about.
Anyway, you can find LanSpeed atx .htm It is a fun little utility but, again, I don't know how accurate it is. The relative speeds are close to what I'm seeing.
http://members.chello.nl/~m.vanosta/orcasoft/inde
Enjoy!
When Comtrash acquired Adelphia, my net speed dropped from 6 Mbps to 1 Mbps. I called them repeatedly and they came to the house repeatedly to test. Yep, 1 Mbps was all I could get. But, with Adelphia, it was a reliable 6 Mbps. Finally a service rep said that most people don't know how to test their connections and that Comtrash was reserving the bandwidth for their new VoIP and telephony products. So, I dropped my $60 per month 1 Mbps and with with a $30 per month 1.5 Mbps. I got 50% more for half the price!
Comtrash has been advertising 6Mbit cable modems around here ever since they took over from Adelphia. When the transition occured, I was without service for 10 days. When it came back up, I had 1 Mbit speed. I called them numerous times and they checked numerous times and every time, I had a maximum of 1Mbit but was paying for 6Mbit.
Finally I had an honest technician come to my home. He said they had everybody reduced to 1Mbit to allow more bandwidth for their new services that were coming and for their telephone service (VoIP?). Anyway, he didn't even waste his or my time -- he told me the truth. He said nobody every checks their speed and Comtrash didn't expect anybody to. He was surprised that I did.
So I dropped Comtrash's expensive high-speed and went with a 1.5 Mbit DSL at 1/3 the cost and 50% faster than Comcast's 6Mbit!
I don't know how they can do all the false advertising and deliver less than promised and get away with it. I contacted the city's telecommunications division and they said that Comtrash had a monopoly and that there was nothing they could do to enforce them to provide the service advertised.
The Novell-75.pdf [PDF] document is the order. In it, the judge says:
Quick! Hide all the chairs!!!
I ain't had this much fun since the pigs ate my little brother.
It is no wonder that so many people today have lost all respect for the U.S. Judicial system. Just glance over at SCO v. IBM for a laughing stock of what's wrong with the system. Then we have a Supreme Court that rules on everything NOT in the Consititution. We have judges making law and a Congress being judges. The legal system is so screwed up, its amazing that it even works at all... Wait! It Doesn't! Look at all the sexual predators out on the streets. Murderers repeating their acts. The rising numbers of unsolved crimes....
No, after thinking about it, this is just par for the legal system.
I still use an HP-35 and an HP-67. I love the 67 and its only problem is that the magnetic card reader has died but, it is still programmable.
;-}
These calculators just run and run and run, I've never had any reason to get rid of them. Thanks to HP for some great calcs!
Of course my K&E Analon slide rule still works too! (Did I just date myself?
Yes, the logo means:
Danger! Keep Away!
Enter at Your Own Risk!
All Your Rights Belong to Us!
Not Suitable for Ages 2 and Over.
The Surgeon General Has Determined that Windows is Hazardous to Your Health.
Abandon all Hope All Ye Who Enter Here